How Will President Obama’s Reelection Affect the Implementation of FSMA?
There’s no question that the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) is behind schedule in implementing the Food Safety Modernization Act (FSMA).
Signed by President Obama on January 4, 2011, this landmark food safety law aimed to shift the focus from responding to contamination to preventing it from occurring in the first place. However, several FSMA-required regulations have yet to be implemented and are still sitting at the Office of Management and Budget (OMB) pending approval—20 months after the proposal became law.